{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Wirada | image = Wirada.punctata.female.svg | image_caption = female ''W. punctata'' | authority = Keyserling, 1886<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''W. punctata'' | type_species_authority = Keyserling, 1886 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 6, see text }}
'''''Wirada''''' is a genus of comb-footed spiders (family Theridiidae) that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1886.<ref name=Keys1886>{{cite book| last=Keyserling| first=E.| year=1886| title=Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae| pages=1–295| publisher=Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.64832| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/131271| author-link=Eugen von Keyserling}}</ref>
''W. tovarensis'' is {{convert|1|mm}} long. ''W. punctata'' males have a body length of {{convert|1.4|mm}}, while females have a body length of {{convert|1.5|mm}}.<ref name=Levi1963>{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1963| title=The spider genera ''Cerocida'', ''Hetschkia'', ''Wirada'' and ''Craspedisia'' (Araneae: Theridiidae)| journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology| pages=170–179| volume=70| issue=3| doi=10.1155/1963/85397| url=http://psyche.entclub.org/pdf/70/70-170.pdf| doi-access=free| archive-date=2019-07-18| access-date=2019-08-25| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718224923/http://psyche.entclub.org/pdf/70/70-170.pdf| url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2020|06}} it contains six species, found in South America and Mexico:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Wirada Keyserling, 1886| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-16| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3557| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Wirada araucaria'' <small>Lise, Silva & Bertoncello, 2009</small> – Brazil *''Wirada mexicana'' <small>Campuzano & Ibarra-Núñez, 2018</small> – Mexico *''Wirada punctata'' <small>Keyserling, 1886</small> (type) – Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru *''Wirada sigillata'' <small>Lise, Silva & Bertoncello, 2009</small> – Brazil, Argentina *''Wirada tijuca'' <small>Levi, 1967</small> – Brazil *''Wirada tovarensis'' <small>Simon, 1895</small> – Venezuela
'''In synonymy:''' *''W. rugithorax'' <small>Simon, 1895</small> = ''Wirada punctata'' <small>Keyserling, 1886</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1894| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | location=Paris| language=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51973}} *{{cite journal| last1=Lise| first1=A. A.| last2=Silva| first2=E. L. C. da| last3=Bertoncello| first3=L. A.| year=2009| title=Two new species of the Neotropical spider genus ''Wirada'' Keyserling, 1886 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from southern Brazil| journal=Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment| pages=183–194| volume=44| issue=3| doi=10.1080/01650520903467403| bibcode=2009SNFE...44..183L| s2cid=86655438}} *{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1895| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=131–160| volume=64}} *{{cite journal| last1=Campuzano| first1=E. F.| last2=Ibarra-Núñez| first2=G.| year=2018| title=A new species of the spider genus ''Wirada'' (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Mexico, with taxonomic notes on the genus and a key to the species| journal=Zootaxa| pages=495–500| volume=4457| issue=3| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.13| pmid=30314166}}
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Category:Theridiidae genera Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Eugen von Keyserling Category:Theridiidae